Hiel

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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


HIEL.—The name of a certain Bethelite who in the days of Ahab fortified Jericho, and possibly sacrificed his two sons to appease the gods of the disturbed earth (1Ki_16:34). Some obscure event is here applied as a comment on the curse on Jericho pronounced by Joshua.
W. F. Cobb.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


("God liveth".) Native of Bethel. Rebuilt, i.e. restored as a fortified town, Jericho in Ahab's reign, who hoped through fortifying it (for Hiel was Ahab's profane and reckless tool) to have on his borders a city securing to himself the passage of Jordan. In Hiel was fulfilled Joshua's curse on the rebuilder of Jericho (Jos_6:26), "he shall lay the foundation in (i.e. at the price of) his firstborn (Abiram), and in (i.e. at the price of) his youngest son (Segub) shall he set up the gates of it." The builder paid for its restoration by the loss of all his Sons, from the firstborn to the youngest.
The Benjamites, by Joshua's allotment (Jos_18:21), inhabited it, and it is called "the city of palms" (Jdg_3:13; 2Sa_10:5); but not until Ahab's time, when men cast off all fear of Jehovah, was Joshua's curse fulfilled, when Hiel presumed to fortify it (1Ki_16:34). The walls had been miraculously cast down, and it was against their being rebuilt that the curse was leveled. The sin marks how deeply Israel had fallen; the curse how God will not let His word be transgressed with impunity.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


Hi'el. (God liveth). A native of Bethel, who rebuilt Jericho in the reign of Ahab, 1Ki_16:34, (B.C. After 915), and in whom was fulfilled the curse, pronounced by Joshua, Jos_6:26, five hundred years before.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


hı̄?el (חיאל, ḥı̄'ēl; Ἀχιήλ, Achiḗl): A Bethelite who according to 1Ki_16:34 rebuilt Jericho, and in fulfillment of a curse pronounced by Joshua (Jos_6:26) sacrificed his two sons. This seems to have been a custom prevalent among primitive peoples, the purpose being to ward off ill luck from the inhabitants, especially in a case where the destroyer had invoked a curse on him who presumed to rebuild. Numerous instances are brought to light in the excavations of Gezer (Macalister, Bible Side-Lights from the Mound of Gezer, chapter x). At first the very best was claimed as a gift to the deity, e.g. one's own sons; then some less valuable member of the community. When civilization prevented human sacrifice, animals were offered instead. The story of Abraham offering Isaac may be a trace of this old custom, the tenor of the story implying that at the time of the writing of the record, the custom was coming to be in disrepute. A similar instance is the offering of his eldest son by the king of Edom to appease the deity and win success in battle (2Ki_3:27; compare Mic_6:7). Various conjectures have been made as to the identity of this king. Ewald regarded him as a man of wealth and enterprise (unternehmender reicher Mann); Cheyne following Niebuhr makes it Jehu in disguise, putting 1Ki_16:34 after 2Ki_10:33; Winckler explains as folklore.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Hi?el (God liveth), a native of Bethel, who rebuilt Jericho, above 500 years after its destruction by the Israelites, and who, in so doing, incurred the effects of the imprecation pronounced by Joshua (1Ki_16:34):

Accursed the man in the sight of Jehovah,
Who shall arise and build this city, even Jericho;
With the loss of his first-born shall he found it,
And with the loss of his youngest shall he fix its gates (Jos_6:26).
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.


Hiel
(Heb. Chiel', חַיאֵל, life of, i.e. from God, or perh. for יְחַיאֵל, God shall live; Sept. Α᾿χιήλ), a native of Bethel, who rebuilt Jericho (B.C. post 915), above 700 years after its destruction by the Israelites, and who, in so doing (1Ki_16:34), incurred, in the death of his eldest son Abiram and his youngest son Segub, the effects of the imprecation pronounced by Joshua (Jos_6:26):
“Accursed the man in the sight of Jehovah, Who shall arise and build this city, even Jericho; With the loss of] his first-born shall he found it, And with [the loss of] his youngest shall he fix its gates.” SEE JERICHO. Strabo speaks of such cursing of a destroyed city as an ancient custom, and instances the curses imprecated by Agamemnon and Croesus (Grotius, Asnnot. ad Jos_6:26); Masius compares the cursing of Carthage by the Romans (Poli Syn.). The term Bethelite (בֵּית הָאֵַלי) here only is by some rendered fanily of cursing (Pet. Martyr), and also house or place of cursing (Ar., Syr., and Chald. verss.). qu. בֵּית אָלָה; but there seems no reason for questioning the accuracy of the Sept. ὁ Βαιθηλίτης,- which is approved by most commentators, and sanctioned by Gesenius (Lex. s.v.). The rebuilding of Jericho was an intrusion upon the kingdom of Jehoshaphat, unless, with Peter Martyr, we suppose that Jericho had already been detached from it by the kings of Israel. SEE ACCURSED.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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